Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson